Costa Rica: A Democracy on the Brink: With a record number of candidates vying for president amid growing voter dissatisfaction, Costa rica's 2022 elections will likely uphold increasingly untenable inequality.

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  • Author(s): Molina, Iván (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    NACLA Report on the Americas. Dec 2021, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p339-343. 5p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      PRESIDENTS; ELECTIONS; EQUALITY; INCOME inequality; CORRUPT practices in elections; POLITICAL knowledge; VOTING registers
    • Subject Terms:
      COSTA Rica
    • Abstract:
      The Rise of the PAC The bipartisan crisis produced deep divisions in the PLN and the PUSC and encouraged the formation of new parties, the most important of which was the Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC). Conventions 2021 Faced with the possibility that Figueres could try again to seek the PLN nomination, Arias and some local party leaders mobilized to try to get the PLN's 2022 candidate chosen without a convention. [Extracted from the article]
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